Bates didn’t use hawkes much, if at all, early on this season. He’s the type of player who could have linked the defence with the attack when we looked laboured in a few of his games.

Think it tells it’s own story that he was straight in under hignett.


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Bates never used this system at all and yes it it totally different.

3-5-2?

It’s the system we have got a lot of our points with this season and Bates switched to it after the Ebbsfleet home game when he abandoned 3-4-3. I think Bates at least started the season wanting to play attacking football even if it didn’t really materialise. Nobody sets out at home at least not to control games and to deliberately sit on one goal leads.

Hignett the same as early in his first spell seems good at getting the best out of people and believes in getting the ball down and playing plus he’s picking a more balanced midfield with Hawkes adding more creativity and goal threat. Bates maybe was trying to keep his new signings happy in favour of a young lad which happens a lot. I just hope he can do the job without interference this time.

Bates never played an attacking midfielder behind the front 2 unless I'm mistaken. It was a rigid 3 5 2 with 3 deep central midfielders. Hignett is swapping between 3412 and 3421 but the latter didn't work in whichever home game he started with it and brought James on at half time.

1536742958854274951887245343876986....I’m getting a bit dizzy now.

If every player gives 100% then we should do OK especially with the best fans in non league behind the team.
Systems

Agreed, just not quite sure how people can say it's anything like the system/formation or style of football Bates had us playing.

Because it is the basically the same formation with a more balanced midfield but the approach and mentality is more positive we are playing with three centre backs, two wing backs three centre midfielders and two strikers I think you have been playing too much Football Manager

I made no comment on style of play but it’s clear he’s got the players enjoying there football again and playing somewhere near there best without reinventing the wheel tactically. Playing players in roles they are suited to is a start ie.Hawkes.

Another classic Bunker thread - basically arguing over nowt

It is a 3-5-2, so PJ is 'right' as far as that goes. The issue with the way Matty Bates played it was that he relied too much on the full backs bombing on for an attacking threat - nothing was really coming through the middle. The stock ball was out to Kitching on the left, which unfortunately rarely led to anything good.

There was too big a gap between midfield and the two forwards - we had a whole bunch of games where the midfield 3 was Noble, Featherstone, McLaughlin - which says it all really. Muir and James had to keep coming back in search of the ball.

Bates had a defensive mindset, Hignett's is offensive. In the home game against the Orient, who have spent the whole season near the top, Higgy started a midfield 3 of Featherstone- Molyneux- Hawkes. That's a world of difference using the same formation.

This.

It’s a fuckin brutal read


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What is, I don't even see any arguing! I think it's more simple than getting pedantic about systems. Hignett is a positive manager who is picking more attacking players who is he is encouraging to have a go. Tree thinks we have changed the system quite a bit. It's just a discussion.

Surely you'd rather be reading opinions of why we think we've improved over the absent I told you so merchants you'll be back as soon as Hignett takes charge of his first real game.

A full weekend withoug a single rambling platitude by 'smokin Joe' how refreshing!

Please enligten us on allowed content seen as the takeaway and sock threads have died of death.

Ffs finding myself agreeing with PJ.

No one hardly posted after the Orient game and its a lot better than the usual negative, poisonous shite from the usual 3 or 4.

I see a couple of decent results and the happy clappers are out in force. Lets put thing into perspective shall we. Orient game, the best performance since Man U in 1957 according to some, yet we still never managed to win. Boreham Wood, going through a bad patch, ground like Shildons, with only 500 of their fans in it, we win 4-0 ,so what? , we should be. Great to see some improvement, well done to the team, well done Hignett, but hey , lets not get carried away.

Have a nice break chuckles?

Nah he didn't. Russia refused his application for citizenship.

However I've heard the SNP have asked him to be their mascot, complete with a personalised sporran with Jeremy's moniker embroidered in a strategic position !!!!!

Ridiculous claptrap as ever.

Show me some examples of anyone getting carried away after Saturday or going on like that about the Orient game? All I read after Orient was that it was an improved performance and that people actually enjoyed the match, not something I have read much over the last couple of years. It’s just called enjoying a win and/or good performance. If you aren’t even willing to do that you need something to follow that you can actually derive some enjoyment from.

Why the need to label people and make stuff constantly?

That win must have come as a bitter disappointment to the oracle.
Whose report should have read.......

‘Uh, 4-0....that’s nowt. Come back when you’re putting 12 past them because that Boreham team was the reserve team, the supporters know their team is sooooo bad they don’t go, there’s a curse on the ground, the officials were abducted and replaced by look alike Pooly fundamentalists and even with that and half their team playing under the effects of the Black Death they could only put four goals past them,one of which was a penalty, so doesn’t count really, one was a deflection and the other two were wind assisted flukes, while they had 14 proper goals disallowed but the capitalist controlled media refused to acknowledge this and no doubt Churchill was behind this.
Hignett OUT!

Men in white coats then appear, etc, etc........

You’ll never be happy till it’s done your way. That is never going to happen. The board aren’t going to invite you in, sit you down and ask you were they and all their processors were getting it wrong.
There’s times we all want to see change but constant negativity just becomes trademark white noise. The invite to mastermind the revival won’t be coming, ever considered fishing?
It’s all about winning games and enjoying the football, so when we win well we feel a bit better and applaud it. It’s a welcome change.
What the size of ground or crowd makes to it is irrelevant, that really is clutching at straws to have a dig at the team and manager who won convincingly.
The belated ‘congratulations’ come across as reluctant.

Quote button should be removed imo.

Happy clappers the lot of you.

Good point

It really is

Honest

I can only apologise

Stop quoting him ffs